Heskey earns himself another last chance

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STAMFORD Bridge, May 2003. Liverpool’s players traipse off the turf, comprehensively beaten in a winner-takes-all contest that encapsulates all the frustrations of a miserable campaign. In their minds, they fear the worst, facing up to the dreadful consequences of failure to reach the Champions League. Some will be sacrificed to make up the financial shortfall, others jettisoned more readily. Of all the disconsolate men in red, none appears more resigned to his fate than Emile Heskey, the most obvious victim of what seems an inevitable end-of- season purge.

Fast-forward three months and Heskey has survived. More than that, he has